"My fancy readily depicted the progress and completion of this tragedy."

— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)


Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Hugh Maxwell
Date
1799
Metaphor
"My fancy readily depicted the progress and completion of this tragedy."
Metaphor in Context
My fancy readily depicted the progress and completion of this tragedy. Wallace was the first of the family on whom the pestilence had seized. Thetford had fled from his habitation. Perhaps, as a father and husband, to shun the danger attending his stay, was the injunction of his duty.
(Part I, chapter 15, p. 361)
Provenance
Reading
Citation
First part published in 1799; second in 1800. Reading and transcribing text from Charles Brockden Brown, Three Gothic Novels. New York: Library of America,1998.
Date of Entry
07/18/2003
Date of Review
06/26/2007

The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.